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This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for Patrick Henry’s famous Speech in the Virginia Convention also known as his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis

Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 6-8

Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1

This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given at the March on Washington. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figura

The Common Core explanatory writing graphic organizer and rubric provide students with a detailed tool to structure their explanatory writing. Students in grades 6-8 or 9-12 simply need to follow the format the graphic organizers provide, and they will be on their way to excellently structured explanatory essays. The included rubric helps them to identify the qualities of a strong explanatory essay using the specific language of the Common Core State Standards. Common Core Explanatory Writin

This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the Declaration of Independence. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos)

High School Common Core teaching tool that highlights the genre/styles, themes, and major works of all of the major American Literary Periods including Native American, Colonial Period, Revolutionary Period and Nationalism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and Postmodernism. This tool is a great study aid for students and teachers. Common Core American Literary Periods Chart by Dr. Joel Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu

This resource includes the annotated text of the tomb scene in Act III, Scene ii in Julius Caesar in which Mark Antony and Brutus give their famous speeches rich with rhetorical devices and figurative language over Caesar’s dead body. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, and RL6 stan

This resource includes the annotated text of a key scene in Romeo and Juliet on the balcony between the two lovers. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative language, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, and RL5 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help them to become more critical

This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous " I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech given to an audience of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN before he was assassinated. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from th

This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for Gary Soto’s, "Taking Sides." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents, charts, gra

The following FREE resource is a nonfiction article about genetics and heredity in athletics including Common Core questions with standard alignment. Science Genetics and Heredity in Sports Article - FREE DOWNLOAD!! by Dr. Joel Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for William Golding’s "Lord of the Flies." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents a

The annotated version of Act III, Scene II of Julius Caesar is aligned with the Common Core emphases on how and why author's use specific rhetorical devices and argumentative appeals to enhance the meaning of the text and develop the characters and themes. The marginal notes for these critical monologues by Mark Antony and Brutus over Caesar's body, are detailed explanations of the appeals and literary and rhetorical devices that highlight this essential dramatic literature selection. The anno

The provided middle school guided reading stems provide Common Core level questions or statements that teachers can use to help students pause and reflect as they read complex literary and informational texts. The questions are rigorous and require students to use evaluation and analysis-level skills as they read. The question stems reflect the wording and rigor from numerous state test preparation materials and other teacher-created stems. Teachers can use these Common Core guided reading st

The provided high school guided reading stems provide Common Core level questions or statements that teachers can use to help students pause and reflect as they read complex literary and informational texts. The questions are rigorous and require students to use evaluation and analysis-level skills as they read. The question stems reflect the wording and rigor from numerous state test preparation materials and other teacher-created stems. Teachers can use these Common Core guided reading stem

The Common Core narrative writing graphic organizer and rubric provide students with a detailed tool to structure their narrative writing. Students in grades 6-8 or 9-12 simply need to follow the format the graphic organizers provide, and they will be on their way to excellently structured narrative essays. The included rubric helps them to identify the qualities of a strong narrative essay using the specific language of the Common Core State Standards. Common Core Narrative Writing Graphic

The Common Core constructed response rubrics in this file are quick writing scoring tools designed to help teachers score constructed responses for informational and argumentative texts in 2-3 minutes. The rubrics and aligned to the associated reading informational and literary standards for grades 6-8.. One of the critical foci of the Common Core State Standards is the expectation that students communicate their processing of complex texts in writing. Students will be engaged in a plethora of

This resource includes the annotated text of a key scene in Romeo and Juliet featuring the duel involving Benvolio, Mercutio, Tybalt, and Romeo. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative language, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, and RL5 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help

This resource includes the annotated text of the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet in which the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s lives is foreshadowed. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative language, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, and RL5 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help